Welcome to the Vulcan Culinary Database, an online resource for recipes designed to satisfy any Vulcan's gastronomic desires. However, before we move on to the recipes, I believe a few clarifications are in order for the benefit of the humans who have doubtless found their way to this page.
With the odd exception, Vulcans are strict vegetarians. They eschew all forms of meat and most avoid any type of animal products altogether, including milk and milk products, honey, gelatins, and eggs. In this case, Vulcans are more properly referred to as vegans. That having been said, all recipes contained in this database follow the vegetarian tenet and include no meat of any kind. However, a few do contain animal products.
Also, Vulcans are generally loathe to touch food with their hands and most foods contained in the database reflect this distaste. However, those Vulcans who have spent any great length of time around humans or other alien cultures very often relax this habit, so there are a few recipes that can be eaten out of hand.
Though Vulcans much prefer their food to have a light flavor, some of the recipes that follow are geared to the human palate (using Earth ingredients, which have been carefully selected so as to be the closest match to the original Vulcan ingredients) and many Vulcans may find the taste too strong for their liking. In those cases, feel free to adjust the seasoning according to your own preferences.
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If I may break out of character for a moment...
I created this page for my daughter, who is not quite a teenager, and yet is currently obsessed with all things Vulcan (especially Zachary Quinto's Spock -- though she has been growing rather enamored with Leonard Nimoy, as well as Zach). She went through my copy of the Star Trek Cookbook several times, looking for any and all Vulcan recipes. Disappointed that there were only a few to be found, she requested I track some down.
Unfortunately, I found very few recipes that fit the bill. So I decided to create this page for T'Hara -- my daughter's Vulcan alter-ego.
That having been said, please forgive any mistakes I have made in the creation of this website. After all, I am only human.
